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  • Thumbnail for Chemical synapse
    exocytosis. These molecules then bind to neurotransmitter receptors on the postsynaptic cell. Finally, the neurotransmitters are cleared from the synapse through...
    36 KB (4,250 words) - 11:48, 13 June 2024
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    retrograde messenger, such as anandamide or nitric oxide, is released by a postsynaptic dendrite or cell body, and travels "backwards" across a chemical synapse...
    26 KB (3,048 words) - 03:24, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axon terminal
    If the postsynaptic cell (B) is also a neuron, neurotransmitter receptors generate a small electrical current that changes the postsynaptic potential...
    10 KB (1,039 words) - 15:43, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Synapse
    close apposition with the membrane of the target (postsynaptic) cell. Both the presynaptic and postsynaptic sites contain extensive arrays of molecular machinery...
    34 KB (4,060 words) - 23:38, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cell membrane
    form different types of "supramembrane" structures such as caveolae, postsynaptic density, podosomes, invadopodia, focal adhesion, and different types...
    59 KB (6,906 words) - 17:42, 5 August 2024
  • distal dendrites remain highly controversial. When the graded excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) depolarize the soma to spike threshold at the axon...
    18 KB (2,262 words) - 01:19, 5 April 2024
  • is a receptor that can stop stressful neurotransmitter release to the postsynaptic neuron; it is activated by endocannabinoids (ECs) such as anandamide...
    80 KB (9,702 words) - 00:05, 8 July 2024
  • In biology, cell signaling (cell signalling in British English) is the process by which a cell interacts with itself, other cells, and the environment...
    62 KB (6,781 words) - 14:13, 22 July 2024
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    FAM81A (category Molecular and cellular biology stubs)
    FAM81A gene which is expressed in the postsynaptic density of the brain. It plays a pivotal role in forming postsynaptic protein agglomerations, essential...
    2 KB (234 words) - 22:42, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biological membrane
    cell from external environment: apical, basolateral, presynaptic and postsynaptic ones, membranes of flagella, cilia, microvillus, filopodia and lamellipodia...
    19 KB (2,213 words) - 02:51, 24 May 2024
  • excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) result from this particular stimulation pattern. The magnitude of calcium signal in the postsynaptic cell largely...
    43 KB (5,314 words) - 14:43, 28 June 2024
  • contrast between active and (neighbouring) inactive neurons Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, a synaptic potential that decreases the firing of a neuron...
    2 KB (271 words) - 19:42, 25 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Neuromuscular junction
    vesicles. Postsynaptic neurotoxins, otherwise known as α-neurotoxins, act oppositely to the presynaptic neurotoxins by binding to the postsynaptic acetylcholine...
    34 KB (4,062 words) - 14:11, 30 July 2024
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    transport proteins, consuming adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the process. Postsynaptically, electrocytes work much like muscle cells, depolarising with an inflow...
    24 KB (2,300 words) - 16:43, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Synaptosome
    characterization of postsynaptic densities from various brain regions: enrichment of different types of postsynaptic densities". The Journal of Cell Biology. 86 (3):...
    8 KB (931 words) - 11:12, 18 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Long-term potentiation
    caused excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in cells of the dentate gyrus. What Lømo unexpectedly observed was that the postsynaptic cells' response...
    61 KB (7,330 words) - 23:30, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neurotransmitter
    Postsynaptic density Voltage- gated Ca++ channel Synaptic vesicle Neurotransmitter transporter Receptor Neurotransmitter Axon terminal Synaptic cleft Dendrite...
    94 KB (8,341 words) - 07:25, 27 July 2024
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    Synaptic potential refers to the potential difference across the postsynaptic membrane that results from the action of neurotransmitters at a neuronal...
    11 KB (1,541 words) - 09:24, 18 September 2023
  • and potassium in the postsynaptic membrane and producing an excitatory end т и ироооurrent. As cations flow into the postsynaptic cell, this causes a depolarization...
    19 KB (2,483 words) - 20:30, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neuron
    of the postsynaptic neuron in the visual cortex, whereas somatostatin-expressing neurons typically block dendritic inputs to the postsynaptic neuron....
    79 KB (9,145 words) - 20:16, 23 July 2024
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